On January 12, after a three-day closure of the Druzhba pipeline, Minsk and Moscow also signed an agreement on oil transit.
But it is also bittersweet, undercut by the present-day closure of public libraries, and the grim knowledge that reading, and writing, may only serve in "passing time that passes anyway".
The head of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, Phornsiri Manoharn, estimates the eight-day closure of Bangkok's $4 billion Suvarnabhumi airport by antigovernment protesters a month ago will have caused one million foreign visitors to cancel trips or go elsewhere.
And in addition to the two-day closure of the American Embassy in Rome, officials say, recent warnings of a possible Al Qaeda attack prompted the United States to divert an entire carrier battle group scheduled to dock in Naples.
The economic cost of such closures has been highlighted by the estimated £250m lost to business from the three-day closure of the A1M because of flooding in September.
Because it was feared that fine particles of tephra in the ash cloud would cause jet engines to fail, the eruption led to a six-day closure of European airspace, causing airlines to lose more than $250 million daily.
The West Germans' love affair with the car was dramatically interrupted by Sunday closure of the road network.
By Saturday, closure of the corridor had trapped around 32,000 migrants and refugees in Greece, with more than a third of them stranded at the Macedonian border, where a state of emergency was declared.
Inlay butterfly cartilage myringoplasty (IBCM) has been shown effective for same-day closure of bilateral tympanic membrane perforations and is a quicker and more comfortable procedure for the patient.
This study took advantage of a six-day closure of a major airport in April 2010 caused by volcanic ash to examine if there was a decrease in emergency cardiovascular hospital admissions during or immediately after the closure period, using an interrupted daily time-series study design.
Approaching the city centre, the ride passes through the greenery of Parque Nacional, where Ciclovia started with the Sunday closure of the park's roads.
